ThinkingThinking is about using creative, critical, and metacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences, and ideas. These processes can be applied to purposes such as developing understanding, making decisions, shaping actions, or constructing knowledge. Intellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency. Students who are competent thinkers and problem-solvers actively seek, use, and create knowledge. They reflect on their own learning, draw on personal knowledge and intuitions, ask questions, and challenge the basis of assumptions and perceptions.
MY HELP ME PLEASE SPOT I don't know what a circle map is or how you incorporate it in the classroom - I am thinking it has to do with generating ideas - am I at all close? I had another look on online and saw it being used for equlivent fractions and for idea generating within topics.
OH - it appears that I have deleted everything when I updated my at school. I was deleting tables when I was posting in the Thining Activity or Ideas tables. Whoops! Please forgove me until I get it back to what it was. 6/6/2011
I think I will get into the habit of previewing before saving.
Teaching as InquiryTeacher planning and reflections
My name:
Class Level:
Achievement Target:What outcomes am I aiming to achieve? What outcomes do I want my students to achieve? I want room 9 to have a shared language and tool box which we can all use when we come across a problem or to help us make sense of our inquiry.
Timeframe:
Discovery
Focusing
Initial plan. What am I going to do? Develop? Strengthen? Why?
Potential – what might be? Prioritise outcomes. Baseline: Find out what students can already do and what more they need to learn. Refer to National Curriculum and other resources
Reflective questions
Post reflections here
Dates
Why am I focusing on this?
I want the children to know how to sort out information in our inquiry learning and to be able to have conversations about what they are thinking. A shared language to converse with and a tool box that they will always have to organise thoughts and solve problems.
6/6
What level are my students presently at? How do I know?
We initially stuggled with this question so in the time we had with Lyn we devised a thinking tool assessment which is attached below
I have spilt my wall display up into a graphic organiser a KWL chart - what we know, what we are learning and what we want to know and put the graphic organisers into the apporiate catergory. The only graphic organiser that I think can 100% go into the know section is PMI.
6/6
What barriers to learning need to be overcome? What resources will I need?
At this stage I have all the resources that I need to put this into place.
6/6
Other observations, reflections or ideas to try
Wonderings Wall
Reflection at the end of the day on the KC's
SMART goals setting
Chn's own refelctions on goals and KC's
Thinking Tools Practise sheet which ties in with the current inquiry
Have a thinking time which will be based on Current Events.
6/6
Designing
Teaching
What is my plan for doing this? What strategies will I try? How will I change my practice?
What craft knowledge do I already have? Search your own and colleagues' past practice for strategies that may be more effective. Research to see what has worked for other teachers and contexts. Formulate a plan.
Reflective Questions
Post reflections here
Dates
What new teaching strategies & tools will I use?
What are the key steps for implementing my inquiry in the classroom?
What methods & ICTs will I use to track & record student change/achievement and how often?
Other observations, reflections or ideas to try
Delivering
Learning
Put my plan into action. Monitor; collect evidence; write regular dated reflections; interpret data. Plan next steps
Monitor students' progress towards identified outcomes and reflect on what this tells you. Use this new information to decide what to do next to ensure continued improvement in student achievement and in your own practice.
Reflective Questions
Post reflections here
Dates
How am I infusing my ideas into classroom practice?
What am I learning from monitoring student outcomes?
What are the next steps I need to take? (Research, resources, activities)
Other observations, reflections or ideas to try
Evaluating
Summarising
Analyse data and observations and draw conclusions. Prepare and present findings to colleagues.
Reflect on progress, observations: current versus initial data. How did it go? What strategies have made a difference to my students' learning? How do I know?
Reflective Questions
Post reflections here
Dates
What methods will I use to collect ‘end’ data?
What conclusions can I draw from data analysis?
What are my main points?
Specifically how will I share my Inquiry with my colleagues?
Notes
Thinking Activity or Idea
Class Level: Year 5/6
Date:
Learning Context:
Key Competency:
Thinking Strategy or Tool:
Specific:
Who was involved? (class/group)
What resources did I use?
What did the activity involve?
Why was this activity successful?
How could I use this in other ways?
Next time I would …
Thinking Activity or Idea
Class Level: Year 5/6
Date:
Learning Context:Oral Language/Starter
Key Competency:
Thinking Strategy or Tool:Questioning
Specific:Skinning to fat
Who was involved? (class/group)
What resources did I use?
What did the activity involve?
Why was this activity successful?
How could I use this in other ways?
Next time I would …
Thinking Activity or Idea
Class Level: Year 5/6
Date:
Learning Context:
Key Competency:
Thinking Strategy or Tool:
Specific:
Who was involved? (class/group)
What resources did I use?
What did the activity involve?
Why was this activity successful?
How could I use this in other ways?
Next time I would …
Thinking Activity or Idea
Class Level: Year 5/6
Date:
Learning Context:
Key Competency:
Thinking Strategy or Tool:
Specific:
Who was involved? (class/group)
What resources did I use?
What did the activity involve?
Why was this activity successful?
How could I use this in other ways?
Next time I would …
27/03/11 Patuha Reflection I feel time out at Patuha was so very worthwhile. I have ideas I want to put into place ASAP, ideas to try, and have a clear idea of where I am going. This week I am going to put up the inquiry stages, in week 8 room 9 'unpacked' each stage and identified which of the HOMS would fit mostly with a particular stage. This week I will put the display up, I may even get the kids to put them up, as it is always time that hinders progress. I have thought a lot about my discussion with Jackie prior to the art session, then I thought what would be my thought about someone that said what I said about PE/PA. I also need to bring more art into my programme. Firstly, I am going to do the clay activity, I am going to ask the children to construct a figure in their preferred learning poistion. I am going to use the instructions as my guided reading for my target group and get them to make sense of the words using playdough, I will do this in the middle block to ensure success among these children. I am excited about starting a finical literacy inquiry at the end of this week with the visit and more clay work as part of tuning in. However, I really want to get some things set up and make some comclusions with out setting up for success unit. I see that explictly teaching the hats and some keys as part of this. Thank you leadership team and Lyn for this opportunity, I can't wait to get all this into action.
ThinkingThinking is about using creative, critical, and metacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences, and ideas. These processes can be applied to purposes such as developing understanding, making decisions, shaping actions, or constructing knowledge. Intellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency.
Students who are competent thinkers and problem-solvers actively seek, use, and create knowledge. They reflect on their own learning, draw on personal knowledge and intuitions, ask questions, and challenge the basis of assumptions and perceptions.
I don't know what a circle map is or how you incorporate it in the classroom - I am thinking it has to do with generating ideas - am I at all close? I had another look on online and saw it being used for equlivent fractions and for idea generating within topics.
I think I will get into the habit of previewing before saving.
Baseline: Find out what students can already do and what more they need to learn. Refer to National Curriculum and other resources
I analised this to see where what the children already knew and what they need to know
I have spilt my wall display up into a graphic organiser a KWL chart - what we know, what we are learning and what we want to know and put the graphic organisers into the apporiate catergory.
The only graphic organiser that I think can 100% go into the know section is PMI.
Research to see what has worked for other teachers and contexts. Formulate a plan.
Use this new information to decide what to do next to ensure continued improvement in student achievement and in your own practice.
Patuha Reflection
I feel time out at Patuha was so very worthwhile. I have ideas I want to put into place ASAP, ideas to try, and have a clear idea of where I am going. This week I am going to put up the inquiry stages, in week 8 room 9 'unpacked' each stage and identified which of the HOMS would fit mostly with a particular stage. This week I will put the display up, I may even get the kids to put them up, as it is always time that hinders progress. I have thought a lot about my discussion with Jackie prior to the art session, then I thought what would be my thought about someone that said what I said about PE/PA. I also need to bring more art into my programme. Firstly, I am going to do the clay activity, I am going to ask the children to construct a figure in their preferred learning poistion. I am going to use the instructions as my guided reading for my target group and get them to make sense of the words using playdough, I will do this in the middle block to ensure success among these children. I am excited about starting a finical literacy inquiry at the end of this week with the visit and more clay work as part of tuning in. However, I really want to get some things set up and make some comclusions with out setting up for success unit. I see that explictly teaching the hats and some keys as part of this. Thank you leadership team and Lyn for this opportunity, I can't wait to get all this into action.